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Careproctus melanurus Gilbert 1892

Description

Careproctus melanurus Gilbert, 1892.

Blacktail Snailfish. To 32.5 cm (12.8 in) SL (Personal communication: Royal British Columbia Museum Fish Collection, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada). Southeastern Alaska to at least Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Depth: 50–2,286 m (290–7,500 ft) (min.: Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California; max. Stein 1978).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 137, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Stein, D. L. (1978) A review of the deepwater Liparidae (Pisces) from the coast of Oregon and adjacent waters. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, No. 127.